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The recent revelation that Arthur Cox will be acting for Japan Tobacco (JTI) in its threatened court action against the State to block plain cigarette packaging serves as a warning of the possible consequences of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP, coming into force. This supposed free trade agreement is currently being negotiated by the US and EU in almost complete secrecy, and more or less exclusively at the behest of large multi-national corporations and business lobbyists, who comprised 90% of the stakeholders consulted by the European Commission's trade department during its preparation for the TTIP negotiations.

People Before Profit activists in the Rathmines area of Dublin are helping to set up a Dublin Tenants Association. A launch meeting attended by Richard Boyd Barret TD, local councillor, Sonya Stapleton, and housing activist Gerard Maher will take place in Devitt’s Pub (upstairs) in Camden Street on Thursday 19th February at 8.30 pm. It is hoped a movement for rent regulation will spread outwards across the city.

The People Before Profit Alliance will hold a National Meeting for all members and branches (details listed above) to organise for the challenges facing us over the coming year.

The austerity that the government intends imposing on the people of Ireland will be its most severe to date. In every area, in every community and workplace there are vicious attacks being launched on our living standards. We want to be able to meet these challenges and to build a wide response from those groups and workers who want to fight back. The meeting will focus on crisis and how we can best organise to resist the cuts imposed as a result of the bank bail out and Troika dictats.

The Steering Group of PBPA are proposing the following agenda.

The Crisis and Resistance in Ireland today

Health and disability cuts

The future for People Before Profit – followed by workshops on various topics and election of committees

Plenary and summary

Branches can submit proposals before 1st October 2012 that will be included on the agenda.

We hope you will endeavour to attend this important event and if you need any more information or have proposals to submit please email brid.smith@dublincity.ie or contact me on 087 9090166